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[AsiaESLbound]

Personally, I like the British accent and love the BBC. Planet Earth and Life are stunning. No, I don't want an American speaking version of the BBC shows. I'm American and can perfectly understand what they are saying. Often, I understand what the crystal clear proper speaking English are saying better than the often slurred and muffled sounding American accent. It was rare I ever have to ask the British and common wealth country people to repeat things like commonly needed with Americans. Surely cj1976, that guy in the video is or was a special needs student. When I went to London a few times, communication and most speaking I heard was crystal clear to me.

I think it's painful for the British English speakers to listen to American English vs. Americans listening to British as Americans often find proper British English sexy and sophisticated. British speaking is fitting for documentaries, lectures, public speaking, and other intellectual pursuits.

[cj1976]

[GreenlightmeansGO]

[matthews_world]

ESL teachers should always be tuned in English vocabulary of other countries. When I was teaching adults for awhile, I'd always interject variations of vocabulary.

Watching the BBC is certainly a way to prove ones scope of British vocabulary.

Most Americans are quite proud of their own language and don't have much of an ear for other English accents.

A program I'd recommend Top Gear. Not only is it entertaining and well-done, this program will definitely give good examples of the intracacies of the British vernacular and will also increase your automobile vocabulary in the meantime.

[mc_jc]

I don't find the British accent difficult or painful to listen to.
On the contrary- I find it extremely sexy to hear a woman speak with a British accent- they get me to buy them a drink everytime

[djsmnc]

I don't care what accent it is as long as it is coherent.

This move makes me think of when Korean restaurants give you a fork when you are perfectly content using chopsticks. Or when they make the food less spicy though you like it hot. Or when they show you the calculator even though you understand prices in Korean.

[CapnSamwise]

well probably they let oprah narrate since much of it was filmed on her


because she is so fat

[Lunar Groove Gardener]

Yes, Oprah was arrested last week.
She had 50 kilos of crack stashed under her skirt.

I'd prefer a Snoop Dogg version to either of these two,
or better yet Flava Flav.

[AmericanExile]

I don't have an issue with British accents. The thing that confuses me is that most of the time the accent disappears when they sing. What's that all about?

[CapnSamwise]

[pkang0202]

Depends on the British Accent. London alone has what, like 12 separate accents?

[CrikeyKorea]

I heard about making the two versions. They did a test screening of an episode in America and the Americans responded negatively to some of the larger words he used. They then replaced Attenborough with K-Fed. Interestingly enough, they pulled K-fed from an interview for E-news talking about picking up hoes in night clubs. They looped the 3 minute video bite for the entire hour and funnily enough the Americans not only enjoyed the show, they absorbed 3 times more information. Totally random

[CapnSamwise]

it's funny because all americans are superficial and worship D-list celebrities like K-Fed in a totally non-ironic sense.


i am not even being the least bit sarcastic if the gay dude from n-synch told me to kill my parents i would.

[Slaps]

Didn't they do the same with Planet Earth?

IIRC the U.S version was narrated by Sigourney Weaver and the U.K by Attenborough.

If you are interested in nature then you MUST watch 'Life' it is epic.

[PigeonFart]

What erks me is when american tv shows put subtitles when english people are talking. Come on!!!